Extension-bedstead.



Patented Apr. 8, I902. w. E. PACK. I

EXTENSION BEDSTEAD.

(Application filed June 14, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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Urrn STAES XVILLIAM E. PACK,

EXTENSION- OF KAMAS, UTAH.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,102, dated April 8, 1902.

Application filed June 14,1901.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E.,PACK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kamas, in the county of Summit, State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extension-Bedsteads and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to extension-bedsteads; and it has for its object to provide a construction which will permit of the width of the bed to be readily and quickly adjusted, a further object of the invention being to provide a simple andefficient means for bracing the side rails of the bedstead in both of their adjusted positions.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the bed in its broadened position. Fig. 2 is a top plan view showing the bed in its narrow position. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the bed in its broadened position. Fig. 4 is a section view through one of the corner-posts and showing means for connecting a side rail Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 4, the side rail being disconnected. Fig. 6 is a sectional view through a side rail and illustrating the manner of connecting a slat.

Referring now to the drawings, the present bedstead comprises a headpiece and a footpiece having the same construction, so that a description of one will suffice for the other. Each of the end pieces consists of two posts 5 and 6, the post 5 having two parallel tubes 7 and 8, which project laterally from the post and which are fitted slidably in the similar tubes 9 and 10 of the opposite post, the outer tubes being provided with set-screws 11 and 12, adjacent their free ends, and which are adapted to impinge against the inner tubes. The posts may be thus adjusted toward and away from each other, and they are held in their adjusted positions by these set-screws.

The posts at one end of the bed have projecting lugs on their faces, adjacent to the posts at the opposite end of the bed, and in Serial No. 64,541. (No model.)

and 16, respectively, which are adapted to receive the downwardly-turned hooks 18 at the ends of the slats 17, which latter are in the form of rods. The slats in the present instance are six in number and are of equal length, so that when the head and foot boards are adjusted to space the side rails the slats will lie parallel, as shown in Fig. 1, with their hooks engaged with the eyes. When the side rails are brought toward each other or are disposed in close relation, as shown in Fig. 2, then three slats may be arranged diagonally of the rails, with their hooks at one end engaged with the eyes 16 at one end of the rail 14 and their hooks at their other ends engaged with the eye 15 at the opposite end of the rail 13. The remaining three slats may be disposed mutually parallelwith their terminal hooks engaged with their remaining eyes 15 and 16 of rails 18 and 14, so that one set of three slats will cross the other set of three slats.

To prevent the side rails from spreading, a tie is provided and consists of two rods 20 and 21, each of which has an eye.22 at one end bent to lie at right angles to the rod, and each of these rods is slipped through the eye of the other rod, and when they are thus engaged the hooks 23 at their opposite ends are hooked into eyes 24 on the inner faces of the side rails and midway of the ends thereof, thus holding the rails against outward movement. When the bedstead is adjusted to its narrow position, the rods are disengaged from the side rails and are disengaged from each other, and one of the rods is disposed at each end of the bedstead and has its eye engaged with a hook 25 on the inner face of one rail and its hook 23 engaged with the eye 26 on the inner face of the opposite rail. The tie-rods are thus used for tying the side rails in both of their adjusted positions.

It will be seen that the present construction is cheaper, that the bed may be readily ad j usted, and that when in either of its adjusted positions the parts are held securely against displacement.

What is claimed is- 1. An adjustable bedstead comprising ends including posts connected for movement toward and away from each other, side rails connected with the posts having eyes on their inner faces, slats having terminal hooks removably engaged with the eyes and a separable tie constructed and arranged for joint engagement with the rails and for individual engagement with the rails to hold the rails in different spaced relations.

2. An adjustable bedstead comprising side rails arranged for movement toward and away from each other, slats movably engaged with the side rails and adapted for interchangeable name, in the presence of two subscribing wito nesses, on the 5th day of April, 1901.

WILLIAM E. PACK.

Witnesses:

R.- L. KING, A. H. MCCORMICK. 

